being jake wood

I’m happy to be back at the blogging post once again.  It’s been WAY too long since I’ve posted.  With our March Madness outreach, I was in a blur of busyness, and it seemed I never could find the time to blog.  Well, here we are and I’m excited to be back in the swing of things!

Weekend Teaching Series: Soul Sessions Part 1: In a Pit

Our first week back from our month long outreach, “March Madness” came with a retro theme called “Soul Sessions”.  During the month of April we are going 70′s!  We invited all the students to dress in their best 1970′s garb and had a pretty fun turnout.  I sported some hand made bell bottoms and a beautiful butterfly collar!  

Sermon in a Sentence:

Life is full of “pits”.  When you learn why and how to get out of them, you REALLY begin to evolve as a Christ Follower.

This Week’s Scale of Difficulty:

8 out of 10. Pretty busy week in prepping for the new series.  Had a great time studying for this message… I probably went too long (as usual), but I felt really passionate about the topic of “getting out of a rut” as a Christian.  Had a superb group of youth staff that stepped up in an amazing way… I love our leadership team!  We have begun to implement our Tribes (small groups) into Thursday nights and beyond.  WAY STOKED about seeing our students plug in to a tribe and grow!

On another side note, we have completely changed over the reigns of  ”worship leader” from Tim Weaver to Kyle Caffrey.  I am UBER pumped about this move, because Kyle is a great student and a very talented worship leader.  Having a student up there lead the worship is a totally different atmosphere and one that I hope everyone will enjoy!  I plan on meeting with Kyle regularly and building a great worship team that will blow the roof off!

Attendance:

Attendance was down %19 from the previous week.  Up 33% from the same week last year.  We expected a decline after our outreach, but was very pleased to see a HUGE number of our visitors return from the last several weeks!

Service Length:

90 minutes

Music Playlist:

Love Enough

What the World will Never Take

Inside Out (theme song for the night)

Youtube Video Annoucements:

I haven’t posted our video announcements in awhile, and I get a lot of people asking for them, so… here is the last couple weeks of Youtube video announcements!